Louis, A;
Dash, SK;
Barr, ET;
Ernst, MD;
Sutton, C;
(2020)
Where should I comment my code? A dataset and model for predicting locations that need comments.
In:
ICSE-NIER '20: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results.
(pp. pp. 21-24).
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Abstract
Programmers should write code comments, but not on every line of code. We have created a machine learning model that suggests locations where a programmer should write a code comment. We trained it on existing commented code to learn locations that are chosen by developers. Once trained, the model can predict locations in new code. Our models achieved precision of 74% and recall of 13% in identifying comment-worthy locations. This first success opens the door to future work, both in the new where-to-comment problem and in guiding comment generation. Our code and data is available at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/cup/comment-locator/.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Where should I comment my code? A dataset and model for predicting locations that need comments |
| Event: | The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, New Ideas and Emerging Results Track |
| Location: | Seoul, Korea |
| Dates: | 23 May 2020 - 29 May 2020 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3377816.3381736 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1145/3377816.3381736 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107433 |
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